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Black Mesa State Park
HCY 1, Box 8
Kenton, Oklahoma 73946
(580) 426-2222
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Location: Off County Road 325, 27 miles northwest of Boise City, Oklahoma Approximately 124 miles North of Amarillo, Texas. Black Mesa stands majestically as the highest point in Oklahoma. With an elevation of 4,973' at the high point, monument lures hikers from all over the world. Features/Facilities 349 Park Acres * 159-Acre Lake Carl Etling * 55 Campsites (S) (P) (D) *Group Camp (capacity of 120) * Black Mesa Preserve * Hiking Trail * Boating * Fishing * Playground (S) (P) (D) |
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(M) Modern Campsite (electric, water and sewer hook-ups
(M) (S) Semi-Modern Campsite (electric and water hook-ups) (S) (P) Primitive Campsite (no hook-ups, water faucet nearby) (P) (D) Dump Station (D) Fish Species in Lake Carl Etling: Large
and small mouth Bass, Hybred Striped Bass, Channel Cat, Sponsored by the
Tagged Trout Fishing Derby
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May
Memorial Weekend 25th Skelly Memorial Ranch Rodeo
A ranch rodeo consisting of area ranches competing in memory of local cowboys. Located
at Prather arena near the Black Mesa State Park. Admission Fee $4.00 Time 2:00pm Contact
Don Prather (580) 426-2416 or 426-2412 for more information.
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Black Mesa Bed & Breakfast P.O. Box 81, Kenton, Ok 73946 Phone: 1-800-866-3009 or 1-580-261-7443 E-Mail BMBB1@juno.com
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Bird watchers, rock and fossil hounds, archaeology buffs, campers and anglers
find common ground at
Black
Mesa named for a lava-topped mesa 14 miles north of
the park. At 4,973 feet, Black Mesa formed 30 million years ago is the
highest point in Oklahoma and it extends for 45 miles into New Mexico and
Colorado. A well-marked trail to the top takes about four hours to
hike. Around the park itself, travelers find
dinosaur pits, American
Indian pictographs and volcanic rock formations. The park's 260 acre lake
Carl Etling offers ice fishing when blue northers blow and year-round open
channel fishing. As you drive out of
the park, look for towering Dakota
sandstone formations south of US 385. They're called the
"Three
Sisters or the Wedding Party.
East of Kenton on SH 325, is a county road marked "To Black
Mesa." Travel north to the mesa; as
the highway curves around the
mesa's east side, look to the east for a hill with a rock rim (there's a
house
at the base). The hill is Robbers Roost, a hideout for outlaw gangs that
raided area ranches and Santa Fe Trail freight caravans. The petrified
forest on Robbers Roost has been called a "dinosaur
graveyard."
A road sign marked with a dinosaur outline takes travelers to a dry creek bed
where tracks of the
Allosaurus from the Pleistocene era are preserved.
More than 18 tons of fossilized dinosaur bones
have been taken from he
area. The prize find was a six-foot long femur.
This 349-acre park in
Oklahoma's panhandle got its name from the layer of black lava rock that
coated the
mesa about 30 million years ago. The Nature Preserve contains 1460 acres
located 15 miles from the state
park and features Oklahoma's highest elevation at 4,973 feet above sea
level. The highest point can only be
reached by a fairly challenging, 4 mile hiking trail and is marked by a
granite monument. Black Mesa State
Park is adjacent to Lake Carl Etling and offers 63 campsites, picnic
facilities, 2 boat ramps and a mooring
buoy, fishing, a playground, restrooms with showers and a group camp
with 12 bunkhouses to accommodate
132.
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